** Author's note **
Well heres Chapter 4 ... FINALLY :D
lol sorry for taking too long to post it ...
enjoy
~KP
LANA's POV
We stepped into the container where everyone's personal belongings were stored.
"I wonder if we can find our sleeping bags...they were with our ruck sacks." Aisha grumbled as we walked around the upside-down compartment, fishing around everyone's belongings. Aisha and Boone went further into the compartment with Jack while I stayed up front with the others.
"The whole bloody container's upside-down, it's all topsy-turvy" claimed Paris.
'Yeah I think we noticed.'
"Thank goodness it's not a total loss." Paris said relieved as he pulled out a bottle of alcohol.
"Booze? This is what you have to drink?" Fry seemed not so impressed.
'Alcohol is always good' I thought as I smiled.
"I'm gonna need a receipt for that. For all of these. This is my personal stuff." he exclaimed, as Johns and I grabbed a bottle each, and smirked.
"Ah don't worry." I chuckled, as Johns flashed a quick smile.
"I don't suppose this will help you at all." Fry claimed, flashing her light at Imam.
"Unfortunately, it is not permitted. Especially while on Hajj." he explained.
"And I respect that" I acknowledged.
"You realize there's no water, don't you?" Johns stated.
"All deserts have water. It only waits to be found." he pointed out.
"I hope you right." Johns answered.
"All the more for me then." Paris said as he closed the sarcophagus looking container.
"Found them!" Aisha yelled over her shoulder, as me and Johns approached her. She found our sleeping bags with our last names tagged onto them.
"That's great!" I exclaimed.
"We should get some rest." Aisha advised as she looked over at Boone's leg wound.
"Yeah you two need to get some rest, I'm gonna go help the others. I'll let someone else borrow mines for now" I agreed as I slowly started to walk away with my bag.
"You should get some rest to Lana." Boone suggested.
"No I'm fine, I promise I'll get some sleep later." I smiled back.
"Alright" Boone sighed. We all walked out of the container. Boone and Aisha headed towards the ship while the rest of us stayed outside for the most part.
"What's this?" I questioned Shazza. She and her husband Zeke were…inventing something.
"Oxygen levels are low here, so were making breathers for everyone."
"Good." I responded, as they put on the finishing touches and started handing them out.
"Where are Johns and Fry?" she asked.
"Fry is back at the ship and Johns went back to the compartment." Jack responded.
"I'll go" I volunteered while holding my hand out. Shazza smiled and handed the two breathers to me.
'Johns first, Fry later so I can talk to her' I noted. Jack tagged along, he was so adorable. Jack was starting to grow on me, he was like a little brother.
"How long do you think we're gonna be here?" he questioned.
"Depends…but I'm sure we'll be gone soon" I assured him, as we walked into the container.
"Johns?" I called out, as he came out crawling from the back with a box full of ammo.
"Here" I said handing him a breather.
"What's this?" he asked.
"It's a breather Shazza and her husband Zeke made them…to help us breathe 'coz the oxygen levels are low." I explained as he moved closer.
"Thanks, and no hard feelings about the whole not helpin' you outta your chamber when everything went all hell." He asked looking into my eyes.
"Well yeah it's alright you were scared, I understand." I shot, as he grinned at me, and moved in closer. We were literally a foot apart from each other. Jack was getting uneasy I could tell he was watching us tensely, his eyes on us the whole time.
"She's military, Private first class." Jack bursted.
'I see someone's been paying attention, but I'm sure he can tell' I smiled.
"Yeah I noticed from the ruck sacks, and the uniform…Private first class huh?" Johns smiled.
"Yes" I answered.
"In the Marine Corps!" Jack broke out again.
"Tough Chick huh?" Johns poked around.
"Tough Marine" I stated, as I walked out and away towards the ship to find Fry.
"He's weird I don't like him." Jack mumbled.
"Couldn't agree with you more kid" I agreed as we laughed.
RIDDICK's POV
I walked for a while now and then came across what looked like trees. I ran towards them hoping to find some shade from the heat, as I approached them I learned that they weren't trees, they were bones.
'A graveyard full of dead creatures? Wonder what did this…' There were so many skeletons everywhere, all picked clean. I snapped off a piece from one of the rib bones, and sat down in the interior hip section of the skeleton for shade. I started carving the bone to give it the structure of a shiv with a grooming appliance…all the shivs that belonged to me were taken, and thrown away.
'Thanks Johns' I growled.
The shiv wasn't perfect, but it'll do. I decided to take a quick nap in the eyeball region of the bones high above the ground, before heading out again. If they did come looking for me, which I know they will 'coz Johns wants his damn payday they won't see me laying in this curve.
There was one problem. I couldn't get that girl…Lana outta my mind. She seemed very...interesting, well her voice was, I haven't technically seen her yet.
'I'm looking forward to that' I thought as I smirked and fell asleep.
LANA's POV
"Fry I need to talk to you" I walked up to her handing the breather and motioning Jack to leave.
"Sure, what is it?" I can already tell she was uneasy.
"It's about what happened between you and Owens, before the crash" I warned.
"What?" she asked confused.
"I know what happened" I explained.
"What happened?" she questioned like she didn't know what I was talking about.
"Fry, I heard you tell Owens that you were going to purge us all." I stated as I looked at her dead in the eyes crossing my arms.
"You know I didn't mean it, I feel bad now that I think about it. Everyone thanked me for saving their life, when it was actually Owens who who stopped me, and saved them." she replied, she looked at me for approval. I didn't say anything, I just looked at her with a blank expressionless face, leaning against a wall with my arms crossed.
"I didn't...I do feel sorry you know" she reassured me as she looked down.
"That's all I wanted to talk about." I finally responded.
"We were gonna look for more survivors but, then we saw how bad the crash was. We thought no one would've made it so we didn't bother" she spoke.
"Your right 'coz everybody we came across were long dead, guess we were just lucky huh?" I cut her of, uncrossing my arms. Then Johns came running in.
"Where's he?! Where's Riddick!?" He stormed.
'Oh I forgot all about him'
"Isn't he tied up?" Fry asked.
"I found his restraints." Johns growled.
"How?-" Fry questioned before getting cut off by Johns.
"That bastard!" Johns roared.
** Author's note **
OK sooo how was this chapter ?
good ? bad ?
lol chapter 5 is soo much longer :p
and don't worry I'm practically finished with Chapter 5 .. just gotta edit it n look it over
and ...
! SPOILER ALERT !
Riddick and Lana meet in chapter 5 ! :D
I know I know ... FINALLY ?! right ? lmao
~KP